When people are young, when they hear the elders talk about some life experiences, they often adopt the posture of "I don't listen to me and don't listen", especially in the face of some bitter advice from the old people, they are completely dismissive, thinking that the future self must be strong enough, even if it is a big difficulty and obstacle, it can be flattened, but wait until they really grow up.
After being tempered by society for a few years, people often find that they are not as powerful as they think, and the ancient teachings of some old people are indeed very useful, such as this sentence "After the age of 30, people go to these two places less, otherwise they will cause trouble", so which two places are they?
The first place is the "land of contention", just as the so-called "do not do things that are long profitable, do not go to the land of multitudes", those things that can always get benefits, then there is no need to do, those places where everyone is fighting, it is best not to go. This is actually a way to save yourself under the struggle, that is, "the rapids retreat bravely, do not live in danger."
Just as the so-called thirty and standing, people often do their best to fight for their "foundation" in society, that is, career wealth status, etc., even at all costs for this, but this state is easy to cause trouble. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li and Wen Zhu assisted The King of Yue and achieved the great cause of dominating the world, at this time Fan Li began to retire and persuaded Wen Zhu to leave together.
Because the high position held by the two of them was a very obvious "place of contention", which everyone wanted to get, but Wen Zhong did not think much of Fan Li's persuasion, so although Fan Li had left, Wen Li always stayed in Yue Guo as a high-ranking official. In the end, Fan Li became the world's richest man and became a "shang sheng" recognized by business people, while Wen Zhong was killed because he had lived in the "land of contention" for a long time.
In addition, about "do not do things that are profitable for a long time", in fact, it does not mean that the things that have always been able to profit cannot be done, but that they cannot allow themselves to occupy all the benefits, that is to say, they must share the benefits with others, otherwise they will not be able to last long, after all, "where the benefits are, it is the place of contention", and their own monopoly of full profits is to form many opponents out of thin air.
The second place is the "land of right and wrong", that is to say, some of the places with various disputes and disputes, the reason why the place of right and wrong can have many right and wrong, the most fundamental reason is that people in it, it is difficult to really distinguish between right and wrong, not necessarily for "right and wrong", not necessarily for "right and wrong", more because in the interests, out of their respective positions and can not be fair and objective.
In this case, if you are easily involved in right and wrong, then it is naturally difficult to retreat from the whole body, and even inexplicably encounter some opponents and even enemies, and the simplest example is that there are two groups of people fighting on the street, and you suddenly jump over to let them not fight, so both sides think that you are helping each other, and they are instantly beaten into a pig's head.
In fact, in many historical events in ancient times, there are many allusions that people have suffered hardships in the "land of controversy, the land of right and wrong", basically every time the imperial court fights, it is inevitable that many officials will be innocently implicated, such as Li Shangyin, who has not done anything but is constantly degraded, but because he encountered the "Cow and Li Party Dispute", Su Shi, who also did nothing and kept being degraded, was only because he encountered the "old and new party struggles".
It is precisely because there are so many such historical events that the ancestors have ended such a saying, which has been passed on by word of mouth year after year, and is still the magic weapon for many people to live in the world today. What do you think about that? Do you agree with this attitude of the ancients? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.